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Yü-lin

Yü-lin is the alternative form of Yulin.

Meaning of Yulin

Proper noun (1)

Yulin

  1. A prefecture-level city of the Guangxi autonomous region, China.
    • Gen. Hsiang Han-pin is reported to have occupied Sunhu on Feb. 17 and captured 3,000 prisoners while two battalions of the Ironsides, which had secretly joined the Kwangsi rebels were captured and disarmed by Gen. Tsai Tung-kai's forces west of Watlam.[1930 February 22, “The Situation in the South”, in The China Weekly Review, volume LI, number 12, →OCLC, page 419, column 1

Proper noun (2)

Yulin

  1. A prefecture-level city of Shaanxi, China.
    • About twelve wersts and a half from Yulin, we arrived at the fort of Tcha tao, close to which there is an inn, where we found a great number of travellers assembled; some were preparing to proceed on their difficult road across the mountains, and others resting themselves after having accomplished...1827, George Timkowski, Travels of the Russian Mission through Mongolia to China in the Years 1820-1821, volume I, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC, page 307
  2. A bay of Sanya, Hainan, China.
    • U.S. cameras have photo­graphed construction of a ship berthing area, a jetty and more than 50 buildings, as well as dredging of a channel at Woody Island, one of the largest of the group.
      Chinese convoys are reported sailing frequently from the port of Yulin on Hainan Island's south coast to Woody...1971 July 7, “Peking Building New Sea Base?”, in The Salem News, volume 83, number 160, Salem, Ohio, sourced from AP, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 1
  3. A naval base in Sanya, Hainan, China.

Origin of Yü-lin

From Mandarin, Wade–Giles romanization.

Questions about Yü-lin

What is Yü-lin the alternative form of?
Yü-lin is the alternative form of Yulin.

Words near Yü-lin in the dictionary

  1. Yên Bái
  2. Yörük
  3. Yörüks
  4. Yü Shan
  5. Yü-li
  6. Yü-lin
  7. Yü-t'ien
  8. Yü-tien
  9. Yüan
  10. Yüeh
  11. yüeh-ch'in

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Yü-lin (page history and authors); Yulin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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